Dealing with automated phone service

Every time that I need to get some product help, there is this handy dandy phone number on the back to call customer service.  So being the intelligent customer that I am, I call the number.  What happens next is something that can become a nightmare from the get go if your not ready for [...]

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Decisions on developing skills

When you choose to spend some time working on your skills for a career, you are making a valuable investment in yourself.  It’s easy to get sidetracked into learning skills that you think are important to you.  When you have a selection of what to do, make sure to take some time and figure out [...]

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Why don't we...

Today is more of a question to think about.  When it comes to finances,  most of us have a pretty good idea of what we want to achieve.  Almost all of us want to get out of debt, make more money, and increase our wealth.  So the big question is….

If something is going to negatively [...]

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Furnishing basics for less.

Buying furniture and items to put in your home can be a lot of fun.  There are plenty of ways to get furniture into your home.  I have been through all sorts of furniture and some of it works, and some of it doesn’t work at all.  When you decide to put your home together, [...]

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Gardening with less

So I might not be a plant expert, but I have put my fair share of plants in the ground and had them live, survive, and thrive so I like to think that I am somewhat decent at putting together a flower bed.  The flower bed I built was from the ground up.  I had [...]

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Understanding Averages Part 2

Have I mentioned that I like averages yet?  Probably not, but then again, if you don’t look for the average or mean gain when you are looking at stocks or funds for a lifetime, then you aren’t looking for anything long term in the least.

There are a few main ideas that you can use when you [...]

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Understanding Averages part 1

I am a big fan of averages.  Why is that you might ask?  When you do something several times, you start to see a pattern normally of some type.  After you see this pattern several times you can think of it as the average pattern to be seen.  You can use this knowledge of patterns [...]

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Learning about cash flow

I heard a radio ad the other day for pay day loans.  In the ad the lady talks about how she ran into a few unexpected expenses and needs money for right now.  So in theory when you make money, you can spend it normally.  When you have an extra expense, take out a loan, [...]

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Budget Busting Diet

What do you think of when you put the words diet and budget into the same sentence.  Most people wouldn’t connect the two, but in fact they have some things in similar.  Budgets are the financial diet of our life and a diet is an attempt to control our food diet.  So when you are [...]

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Biblical Principles from Proverbs 17

There are tons of excerpts on financial dealings in the Bible.  Today lets continue talking about many of the fundamentals.  A lot of these have to do with making good decisions and using wisdom and acting with integrity to achieve prosperity.  I’m not saying riches, but being prosperous instead.  God never says that he will [...]

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